For a Cold

Title: For a Cold
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy for treating a cold using licorice root, raisins, brown sugar, and rum or vinegar.
Transcript: Take a large tea-cupfull of Linseed two pennyworth of stick-liquorish, a Quarter of a pd of Sun-Raisins put these into two Quarts of soft water, then add to it a quarter of a Pd of brown sugar Candy powdered, a table spoonfull of Old Rum and a Table spoonfull of the best White Wine Vinegar or Lemon juice note the Rum & Vinegar are best to be added only to that Quantity that y[ou] are Immediately going to take; for if it is put into the whole, it is apt in a little time to grow flat Drink half a Pint at going to Bed & take a little whenever the Cough is troublesome
Subject: See all items with this value linseed oil; See all items with this value liquorice; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value raisin; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value rum; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value illness; See all items with this value common cold
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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